Release Date: 28 May 2012
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917253528
Description
The Israeli ensemble Trio Mondrian, now based in Berlin, is one of the most highly-praised young chamber groups on the international scene today. This recording features two of the most well-known trios from the 20th century - by Shostakovich and Ravel. The disc has already received a glowing review in the Gramophone prior to release.
In 2007 the Trio Mondrian won first prize at the prestigious International Chamber Music Competition in Trieste, Italy, as well as receiving the Special Prize for their interpretation of a Brahms Trio and the "Young Award". In addition, they have won the audience prize at the 2008 Bologna Festival. Marcello Abbado, the noted Italian musician and composer recently dedicated a new work to the group, titled "Trio Mondrian". Trio Mondrian performs regularly in Israel and Europe. Its first recording featured music by Brahms and Dvorak. In 2009 the trio was awarded a fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London.
"The Trio Mondrian inhabits two very different worlds on this excellent disc...this performance [of Shostakovich] has terrific integrity, blending bitterness and irony with the elegiac, brooding quality...The Mondrians' colours and textures in the Ravel are luminous, with delicacy and gusto achieving a fine equilibrium." - Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone
Personnel: Ohad Ben-Ari (piano), Daniel Bard (violin), Hila Karni (cello)
Tracklisting
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Aart Bergwerff
Roberto Prosseda
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazic, Jan Willem de Vriend
Ton Koopman
Duo Saraswati
Yoichi Sugiyama
Slava Guerchovitch
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Stefanna Kybalova, Valer Borin, Marcello Lippi, Paolo B
Karolos
Daniel Di Prinzio, Ihor Kordiuk
Nora von Marschall
Isabel Schicketanz
The Counterpoints
